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So, here I am, a 'Wandering Scientist'!
This wasn't really part of the plan if I'm honest.... When I was at school, and people asked what I wanted to do with my life, this would not have been the first thing on my list...... That said, neither would it have been the last thing on my list. At the time, I was not aware that there would be possibilities in the future to work in such a flexible way without having a "proper" job.
The purpose of this blog is to act as a vent for my frequent ramblings, to document the successes (and inevitable failures) of my progress starting out on this Freelancing adventure, and possibly to offer some insight to others who may be considering a similar non-conformist career path.

Monday, 6 June 2011

Money... The root of all evil?

Well, money may be an evil, but these days it is certainly a necessary one, so I was mighty pleased to see that my missing £50 is now safely nestling in my bank account!
I have also received assurances from the school that they will sort out the pay issues there, and, being the optimist that I am, I'm looking forward to 4 months worth of pay at the end of July.
My writing still seems to have ground to a halt. I'm not sure whether it's just time commitments (I have a lot of other stuff going on at the moment) or just a lack of inspiration. Once exam season is out of the way I'll make a concerted effort to get back to churning out lesson plans and cool science at home ideas to share with the world, but at the moment the focus has to be on trying to get my students the grades they deserve, and calming the pre-exam nerves. It's amazing that even my mature students get really twitchy before an exam! That said, a couple of them came to see me after the first of their 3 GCSE modular exams, and said that it hadn't been anywhere near as awful as they'd thought. Confidence is half the battle when it comes to exam prep, and I think that's what the focus will be on over the next week or two - The keys to exam success:

  • Know your stuff
  • Be confident that you know your stuff
  • Write the stuff you know clearly
  • DON'T PANIC!
And most importantly:
  • RTBQ - Read The Bloody (or Blooming, if you prefer) Question!!!!
Good luck to all Science examinees out there!
Posted by Wandering Scientist at 23:29

3 comments:

  1. michael7 June 2011 at 01:50

    Or is it the LACK of money that is the root of all evil? (Naw, that can't be it: look at how the super-rich want even MORE.)

    How about this: "Money is the loot of all evil."? (Naw, too glib.)

    So: you're the Wandering Scientist and you're also rooted in a classroom?

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  2. Wandering Scientist7 June 2011 at 18:48

    I wouldn't say I was rooted in a classroom - I move between many classrooms, popping up as if by magic, wherever there are science students in need (or something like that!).
    At the moment I have a very-part-time (only 3 hours a week!) contract to teach A-level Human Biology at a local Secondary school, and a few more hours lecturing at the local Further Education College alongside my business set-up time and writing.
    I have to do a few part-time bits here and there - I need the money!

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  3. michael10 June 2011 at 08:22

    Okay, you don't seem rooted at all, at all, Dr. D.

    And I've decided money is indeed the panapathogen: not for any terribly sense but simply because others seem to have it and I don't.

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